Lee Marzke on 15 Jan 2006 16:21:03 -0000


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Re: [PLUG] Board not recognized at boot


Doug,

Just a guess, If you rebuild the module and you need it at boot, then you might
have to update the initrd image. man mkinitrd.


Make sure you backup your existing initrd.

Lee Marzke

Doug Crompton wrote:

I have a promise SATA add-on 4 port with two 250gb drives attached. Yes I
know promise is not a favorite but it does have a driver and does work.

At boot the board is not configured nor the drives recognized. lsmod shows
sata_promise was loaded and other dependencies for it.

If I  modprobe -r sata_promise  then immediately modprobe sata_promise the
board and the drives are registered and availalbe. dmesg shows this.

----------------------------------------------------------------------------
libata version 1.12 loaded.
sata_promise: module not supported by Novell, setting U taint flag.
sata_promise version 1.02
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:0a.0[A] -> Link [LNKG] -> GSI 9 (level, low)
-> IRQ 9
ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xE12E8200 ctl 0xE12E8238 bmdma 0x0 irq 9
ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xE12E8280 ctl 0xE12E82B8 bmdma 0x0 irq 9
ata3: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xE12E8300 ctl 0xE12E8338 bmdma 0x0 irq 9
ata4: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xE12E8380 ctl 0xE12E83B8 bmdma 0x0 irq 9
ata1: no device found (phy stat 00000000)
scsi0 : sata_promise
ata2: dev 0 cfg 49:2f00 82:746b 83:7f01 84:4023 85:7469 86:3c01 87:4023
88:407f
ata2: dev 0 ATA, max UDMA/133, 488397168 sectors: lba48
ata2: dev 0 configured for UDMA/133
scsi1 : sata_promise
ata3: no device found (phy stat 00000000)
scsi2 : sata_promise
ata4: dev 0 cfg 49:2f00 82:746b 83:7f01 84:4023 85:7469 86:3c01 87:4023
88:407f
ata4: dev 0 ATA, max UDMA/133, 488397168 sectors: lba48
ata4: dev 0 configured for UDMA/133
scsi3 : sata_promise
 Vendor: ATA       Model: WDC WD2500JS-00M  Rev: 02.0
 Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 05
SCSI device sda: 488397168 512-byte hdwr sectors (250059 MB)
SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back
SCSI device sda: 488397168 512-byte hdwr sectors (250059 MB)
SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back
sda: unknown partition table
Attached scsi disk sda at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
 Vendor: ATA       Model: WDC WD2500JS-00M  Rev: 02.0
 Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 05
SCSI device sdb: 488397168 512-byte hdwr sectors (250059 MB)
SCSI device sdb: drive cache: write back
SCSI device sdb: 488397168 512-byte hdwr sectors (250059 MB)
SCSI device sdb: drive cache: write back
sdb: unknown partition table
Attached scsi disk sdb at scsi3, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Attached scsi generic sg0 at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0,  type 0
Attached scsi generic sg1 at scsi3, channel 0, id 0, lun 0,  type 0

------------------------------------------------------------------------
What would cayse the system to not recognize the drives when the module is
loaded at boot vs. my manually unloading and reloading?

I had rebuilt this module after making a minor mod. but the new code does
work, just not at boot.

The system is SUSE10 kernel 2.6

Doug

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